Gaelic revival

And what kind of happened really fairly quickly after Ireland, what few things kind of happened very quickly after Ireland emerged out of famine? and I say quickly in the historical context of time, you know, is you have Irish independence happening.

And for the first time, really, you know, people sitting back and questioning at the doorstep of this opportunity, what does it mean to be Irish? And there was a group of very powerful, influential Irishmen known as the Gaelic Revival that sort of sat down and theologised this question quite deeply.

And they came up with a lot of good reasons on what it means to be Irish.

So poetry, culture, music, history, folklore, the mythology, you know, language.

Yeah, and that happened very, very quickly, very quickly.

And, you know, everything that you've just explained there from that pathway from sort of colonisation, diminishing and reducing people's, I suppose, previously positive attitude to a really positive, useful food source you know up to present times I think that does really again hammers home to me the importance of food and and as a vehicle for looking back at our social history because It's all of the things that we ordinarily talk about in Irish history from colonisation to the famine to the Gaelic revival are there playing out in the in the history of one food.

And I'll ask you like a couple of more things because I'm conscious of your time, but I have so many things I wanted to ask you.

But yeah, one one thing that again, I'm using the word revelatory quite a bit here, but.

You touched a little bit on the Gaelic revival and how we had this period in Ireland in the late 19th century where I suppose into the abyss that the famine had left behind, there was this desire to rekindle and reclaim sort of a sense of Irish heritage and tradition and It was all about a revival of language and art and history and myth and music and dance and all of these things.

And I never really copped on or twigged the fact that food was not really a significant part of the Gaelic revival.

And it seems glaringly obvious that it should have been.

But again, you know, because food is such an incredible way to globally transmit, you know, we all associate food with countries, like specific foods with like Italy, France, you know, Germany, we have all of that.